Abstract We show how the spectrum of a graph Laplacian changes with respect to certain type rank-one perturbation. apply our finding give new short proofs spectral version Kirchhoff’s Matrix Tree Theorem and known derivations for characteristic polynomials Laplacians several well-known families graphs, including complete, complete multipartite, crown threshold graphs.

The question of what happens to the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a graph when we delete a vertex is addressed. It is shown that λi − 1 ≤ λi ≤ λi+1, where λi is the ith smallest eigenvalues of the Laplacian of the original graph and λ v i is the ith smallest eigenvalues of the Laplacian of the graph G[V −v]; i.e., the graph obtained after removing the vertex v. It is shown that the average nu...

Let G=(V,E), $V={v_1,v_2,ldots,v_n}$, be a simple connected graph with $%n$ vertices, $m$ edges and a sequence of vertex degrees $d_1geqd_2geqcdotsgeq d_n>0$, $d_i=d(v_i)$. Let ${A}=(a_{ij})_{ntimes n}$ and ${%D}=mathrm{diag }(d_1,d_2,ldots , d_n)$ be the adjacency and the diagonaldegree matrix of $G$, respectively. Denote by ${mathcal{L}^+}(G)={D}^{-1/2}(D+A) {D}^{-1/2}$ the normalized signles...